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🎵 Your Song (2026) - Season 1 Episode 2: "When Melodies Meet Hearts"  Every love story has a soundtrack—and this one begins with a single note. In the series premiere of Your Song, a chance encounter at an open mic night brings together two souls whose lives are about to change forever. Through original songs, heartfelt confessions, and the magic of music, discover what happens when melody meets destiny.  🔹 Episode Highlights: • [Hook: "A shy songwriter meets a charismatic performer under the city lights"] • Original performances: debut songs that capture the spark of new connection • Character introductions: dreams, doubts, and the courage to share your voice • Romantic tension: from awkward first words to harmonious understanding • Cinematic storytelling: intimate moments, sweeping emotions, and a cliffhanger that demands Episode 2  🔹 Series Info: • Format: Music Romance Drama / Musical Series / Contemporary Storytelling • Original Network: [Customize: e.g., Streaming Platform / International Syndication] • Season: 1 | Episode: 2 - Series Premiere • Theme: Love, Music, Self-Discovery & Creative Dreams • Language: English (Original Audio) + Subtitles Available • Runtime: ~45-60 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min  🎧 Prefer audio? Listen to Your Song recaps & music drama podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.  👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "What song would YOU sing to start a love story? 👇🎵" Turn on notifications 🔔 so you never miss the next melody!  #YourSong #YourSongS1 #MusicRomance #MusicalDrama #NewSeries2026 #S1E1 #LoveSongs #BingeWatch #StreamingSeries #OriginalMusic #RomanticTV #SoundtrackOfLove #SeriesPremiere #FirstEpisode #MusicAndLove  ⚠️ Copyright Disclaimer: This video is shared for promotional, review, and informational purposes only. All rights to "Your Song" belong to the original production company and broadcasting network. This upload complies with Fair Use guidelines (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No copyright infringement intended.

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00:00We're travelling across the country to hear the people of Britain

00:03sing the songs that tell their incredible stories.

00:08Our mentors, Sam Ryder and Paloma Faye...

00:11Hello!

00:12Paloma Faye!

00:12..will choose one singer from each city

00:14to perform at a once-in-a-lifetime concert

00:17at the legendary Hackney Empire.

00:20This week, we've brought the Your Song stage to Edinburgh.

00:24We're inviting you to listen, not just to music,

00:27but to memory, hope and courage.

00:30Welcome to Your Song!

00:40Isn't it gorgeous?

00:41It's amazing. It feels magical.

00:43Unbelievable, the architecture.

00:45Beyoncé left their wind machine for us.

00:46Yeah, we've looked like pop stars.

00:48Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:49It's not quite working as well as it does for her and me.

00:52Yeah.

00:52Who are your favourite Scottish musicians?

00:55Biffy Clyro.

00:57I remember meeting those guys at the Brit Awards

00:58and I was a bit starstruck.

01:00I'm so glad you get starstruck as well

01:02because I absolutely love Paolo Natini.

01:06I did meet him once and I told him that I loved him so much

01:10that I'd been sitting in the tree in his garden for ages

01:13without him noticing.

01:14How did he take that?

01:15I think that he, funnily enough, it didn't go down well.

01:20Paloma and Sam will be able to watch all of our Edinburgh singers

01:24whilst hidden away inside the city's nearby National Gallery.

01:28This is the first one.

01:29My name's Sarah.

01:30I'm an admin assistant.

01:32This song, I've never sung it in front of anybody before.

01:37Hi, Sarah.

01:38Lovely to meet you.

01:39You look beautiful.

01:40We've got elegance.

01:41Enter in the chat.

01:41We've got elegance.

01:42We've got actually star quality.

01:44Tell me a little bit about your song.

01:46So the song I'm going to be singing today is At Last by Etta James.

01:50It tells a story of how things come along in your life

01:54which can be completely unexpected.

01:56I love this song so much.

01:58It's that first bend note into this song.

02:01You just know if it's there or not.

02:02At last my love has come along.

02:18My lonely days are over.

02:26And life is like a song.

02:34I'm singing it for my husband David when I was 18.

02:38He was the bus driver that used to drive my bus home.

02:42It already sounds like a rom-com.

02:44From the moment that I saw him, I just thought he was adorable.

02:47My heart was wrapped up in clover.

02:53I used to sit on a bus trying to catch his eye in the rear view mirror.

02:57The night I looked at you.

03:02Yeah.

03:04Wondering how on earth I could get this guy to know that I really, really liked him.

03:08And then I stopped seeing him for a couple of years.

03:21One night when I was going home from work,

03:24a bus drove past and this horn just started blaring.

03:28And it was him.

03:29It was this guy I hadn't seen in two years.

03:31And he's waving like a mad person.

03:33And comes running around the corner.

03:35He takes my hand and pushes a bit of paper into it and says,

03:38I can't stop.

03:39I'm holding up the traffic.

03:42This is amazing.

03:43He abandoned the bus of people.

03:44And he disappears around the corner.

03:46And I look down and it's a letter.

03:48I've still got the letter.

03:50Saying maybe we should go out sometime.

03:53That was May 1999 and we've been together ever since.

03:58That's so romantic.

04:00God, I hate dating apps.

04:06And then the spells can't.

04:12She is cooking here.

04:14It's a classy voice, isn't it?

04:16It's like a smoky jazz lounge.

04:18You don't often hear people singing in that placement.

04:21Like this real deep, open vowel.

04:23Yeah, you are mine!

04:28Oh

04:31Holding that night for that long

04:37There's so much power it feels like it means so much

04:43Oh

04:48He's so proud to be out

05:00The first person tonight for me it has everything she's got me

05:07You know that those without saying

05:14And I just asked one more question

05:16Did you ever get a free bus ticket?

05:18Yes, I got I got free travel for the entire time you worked on the buses

05:23Next to sing the song that means the most to them will be 26 year old law

05:27Graduate spencer i'll be singing she's always a woman by billy joel because i'm a hopeless romantic

05:32I love love and that's why the breakup has had so hard

05:36It's my first relationship where it's lasted two years and

05:40My advice for anyone that's going for a breakup is to take the time to heal pursue any hobbies

05:47Whenever i'm doing music it's my happy place

05:50But this is the biggest thing i've ever done singing wise and the song it resonates with the breakup

05:55How recent was it about a month ago so yeah not a pretty recent and still pretty sad about it

06:02But we're powering through it

06:03That's right

06:04That's right

06:05That's right

06:06She can care with her smile she can one with her eyes

06:11She can ruin your faith with her casual eyes

06:17And she only reveals what she wants you to see

06:23She hides like a child but she's always a woman

06:27Oh beautiful sound

06:30She can lead you to love she can take you while i'll leave you

06:35Just pure

06:36She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe you

06:41She'll take what you'll give her as long as it's free

06:46And she steals like a thief but she's always a woman

06:52There's a lazy diction and lazy in the best possible sense like a lulling almost

06:58Oh

07:00She takes care of herself

07:05She can wait if she wants

07:10She's ahead of our time

07:15And oh

07:18And she never gives in

07:22And she never gives in

07:26She just changes your mind

07:32And she'll promise you more than the garden of eden

07:37Then she'll carelessly cut you in love by your bleeding

07:42She'll bring out the best and the worst you can be

07:48Blame it all in yourself cause she's always a woman than me

07:54Going through a breakup i would describe it as losing a part of yourself

07:59We talked a lot about the future moving in together

08:02Marriage everything like that

08:03And it feels like that part of yourself is permanently lost

08:17Just reflecting on how it could have been better but just have to deal with it so yeah

08:41I'm gonna go and see this guy if that's all right

08:44Yeah

08:44When i just give him a hug

08:46He's honest i feel nothing but truth he's ticking all my boxes and i'm just i'm buzzing

09:20Go go

09:31Oh, look, he's emotional.

09:33Dude, you're inspiring me because when I'm, like, watching you,

09:36getting emotional and nervous and the way you carried it,

09:39you've got to teach me how to do that.

09:40When I lose it, I'm off the rails, I'm gone,

09:42and you found a way to stay around on track.

09:45Nice and nice, it's been amazing.

09:46Thank you very much. Thank you.

09:53That was incredible.

09:55You guys have a lovely rest of your day, yes?

09:57When I saw him in the front, I was like,

09:59I didn't expect there's something right there.

10:01It was amazing.

10:03You've got to get a picture.

10:04Just, that really got me.

10:07Just really nice, just a nice moment.

10:09That's a real man, Ned.

10:11It's so common for men to find it difficult to talk about feelings,

10:15and sometimes music gives you permission and access

10:21to how you're feeling.

10:23Nice to meet you guys.

10:25Thank you. Well done.

10:26Thank you very much. Have a nice day.

10:27He's a model of what should be done about, like, Maren.

10:32Are you in?

10:33Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.

10:40I am Gabby.

10:42I'm 20 years old, and I'm from Glasgow.

10:44Hi, Gabby.

10:45Hello, how are you doing?

10:46You all right?

10:48Is that all right?

10:48Yeah, lovely to meet you.

10:49I've seen your family out there.

10:51They're all waiting.

10:52So, what are you singing and why?

10:54So, today I'm singing Just a Man by Alex Clare.

10:57I'm dedicating it to my dad.

10:59He's my total inspiration for music.

11:01What's your earliest memory of you and your dad?

11:03Singing in the car.

11:07Me and my dad are really close.

11:08Grew up going fishing together a lot.

11:10That was kind of our thing, singing in the car.

11:13We would drive all about the place with my sisters.

11:16He would give me all these Aretha Franklin songs and Tina Turner songs, and I'd be belting them out.

11:22Sometimes your two sisters were louder than you.

11:25But maybe not.

11:25Maybe not quite as good, though.

11:27In the car, my sister always used to bring a big sock filled with snacks.

11:31We called it a sock snack.

11:33Why a sock?

11:34I don't know.

11:34Gabs, how are you feeling for your singing?

11:36Are you nervous?

11:37A bit.

11:38I feel like you don't get nervous before you sing.

11:40We all get more nervous than we get.

11:42Oh, my God.

11:43They really kill my sisters.

11:44What's nice is we're all in caring careers.

11:46One's a nurse, one's a dental nurse, and I look after kids with additional needs.

11:51It's pretty much the job I've been waiting to do my whole life.

11:53But it's funny, because school for me was terrible.

11:56I hated school.

11:58I would hear the stories.

11:59I couldn't believe that young people would treat each other like that.

12:03I got bullied a lot just for being different and being gay.

12:08But so proud of Gabby.

12:09She is resilient and she pushes through.

12:11It usually ends up now doing something creative.

12:15Singing definitely got me out of that dark place.

12:18And this song's so important to me because of my dad.

12:23I can just picture him in the front of the car when I'm in the back,

12:26listening to him sing Just a Man.

12:28It gives me a funny feeling inside.

12:31She knows that song hits a spot for me.

12:39See, I'm just a man.

12:41I got these troubles.

12:42I'm making plans.

12:43No, there's really nothing but you.

12:46Really great voice.

12:48I don't think before I speak.

12:49My mind is strong, but my heart is weak.

12:52I'm not the only one who's been made this way.

12:57I haven't slept for days.

13:01Wow.

13:02I haven't slept for days.

13:06I haven't slept for days.

13:10I love that man.

13:11I haven't slept for days.

13:12Digging in.

13:14No, there's really nothing if I know I can't hide, yeah.

13:23Oh, would I be forgiven for the things I've heard you through?

13:29Bending into a note with that grip.

13:31Add some more things, yeah.

13:32You see, I'm just a man trying to understand.

13:40It's got quite a lot of swagger on the stage.

13:43Yeah, she ain't got to do anything.

13:44I love when singers can just stand there with her hands like this on the mic and that's them.

13:49You haven't got to be extra.

13:50And I love the accent not being toned down, truly authentic.

13:55No, there's really nothing if I know I can't hide, yeah.

14:00She definitely knows how to connect to a song, doesn't she?

14:04Oh, could I be given for the things I've heard you through?

14:10You can imagine it bouncing around the walls at the Hankley Empire, can't you?

14:13You see, I'm just a man trying to understand.

14:18Oh, I love what I've heard you do, yeah.

14:23Oh, I love what I've heard you do, yeah.

14:33That was amazing.

14:34Thank you very much.

14:35I'm really proud.

14:37Wow.

14:37I mean, it's going to be hard to choose a finalist.

14:40Making our job difficult straight away.

14:48We're in Edinburgh to hear ordinary people sing the songs that mean the most to them.

14:53Welcome to your song.

14:54Oh, thank you so much.

14:55I'm so excited to be here.

14:56You're a baby.

14:57How old are you?

14:5813.

14:59But I want to be probably 40.

15:02Like, wish your life away too, shall I?

15:04Yeah.

15:0540.

15:06So you want to be born in the 80s.

15:08Oh, I love the 80s.

15:09The music, the fashion, there's so many things about the 80s that I just love.

15:14When are you going to come down?

15:18When are you going to land?

15:22I should have stayed on the farm.

15:25Should have listened to my old man.

15:30I love Elton John.

15:31He's from the 80s.

15:33And this song has a real connection with me.

15:37Singing the blues.

15:41I love his high register.

15:43Pure.

15:44There's so much softness in his time.

15:51Some people can just take a song and sing it, but that's not how a song should be sang.

15:57I've got struggles with autism, but I can feel the colours of the song.

16:03So you should think about the colours of music and what the song is about.

16:09You should take those emotions and you can feel those colours of their emotions and feel the song.

16:16So goodbye Yellow Brick Road

16:20We're the dogs of society house

16:24You can't plant me in your penthouse

16:28I'm going back to my plough

16:32He's brilliant, isn't he?

16:34But for me, he's at the beginning of his journey.

16:38Yeah, and I feel like he's got so much potential, but for what we're looking for,

16:42I probably don't see him as a finalist, but I really want him to carry on.

16:46Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

16:58If I'd have done any of these shows at 13, he could have been like, she's useless.

17:03I remember actually at school once I did a show and someone's mum said, she's very confident, which means love

17:11him.

17:13I don't want a lover

17:15I want these t-shirts, bad choices, make good stories.

17:20Are you making some stories?

17:21Yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:22I hope I'm not going to be involved in that situation.

17:24Where are you from?

17:25I'm from Dallas, Texas.

17:27Dallas, Texas?

17:28Yes.

17:28Y'all OK?

17:30Yeah, yeah.

17:31Y'all OK.

17:31How are you fine in Edinburgh? Isn't it beautiful?

17:33It's a beautiful evening, you.

17:36Are you going to be singing for us today?

17:39That would be a bad choice.

17:43It's rock and roll.

17:44Is this like an acoustic?

17:46Yeah, it's an acoustic.

17:47Next to perform for us is 22-year-old Binley, who's only ever sung in public once before.

17:52OK.

17:55I just hope he's OK.

17:56I hope nothing goes wrong.

17:57I hope nothing goes wrong.

17:58No.

17:59Don't speak it into existence.

18:01Oh, my God, he's walking.

18:04I feel like Finley has done pretty well in the genetic lottery here.

18:07Yeah.

18:08You know what I mean?

18:09Good to meet you.

18:10I'm Alison.

18:11Lovely to meet you.

18:12I'm Finley.

18:13Sit yourself down, you've got your guitar with you then.

18:15I do, indeed.

18:16So, when did you get into singing then, Finley?

18:18Do you know what?

18:19This has only really kicked off in the last year or so.

18:21My mum heard me practising my guitar and she'd said, come through and play me something.

18:25And I felt really nervous, you know, to do that.

18:27So, I sat down and I told her, I'm going to have my back to you because I can't look

18:30at

18:30you because I'm so nervous.

18:31You turned your back on your mind.

18:32I did.

18:33So, I sat there and I played the song that I'll be playing today.

18:35I turned around and she was in floods of tears.

18:39Aww.

18:39So, it's a special song.

18:42Air's a nice seaside town.

18:44When the weather's good, great place to live.

18:47I'm a trainee quantity surveyor.

18:49And for the last 17 years, I've played for Air Rugby Club.

18:54Cut, cut, cut.

18:55That's been a huge part of my life.

18:57My dad loved rugby.

18:59Every game that I had, he was always there supporting.

19:02So generous, so loving.

19:04Aww, your dad.

19:06Unfortunately, in 2018, we found out that my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer.

19:13And we lost him in June of 2020, in the week before he died.

19:18That's when we found out the really shocking news that my mums had come back.

19:26My parents loved music.

19:30My dad was a huge Elvis fan.

19:32My mum's favourite song's Candy by Paolo Natini.

19:36I'm biased, but she was just amazing.

19:39She'd sit and listen to you and she just had so much love to give.

19:43So, when the breast cancer came back, we were all devastated.

19:49Aww, that's a nice one.

19:50New man.

19:52One day, she asked me to play Candy at her funeral,

19:56which was obviously a question you don't think you're ever going to be asked.

20:01It was one of the toughest days of my life.

20:03It was really the first time I'd ever sang for quite a lot of people.

20:07How you doing?

20:09I don't play it very often anymore.

20:12If I ever play it, it's alone.

20:14Please give it off.

20:15To Finlay!

20:19But I do feel very close to my mum when I play it.

20:22I feel her presence.

20:25She'll be by my side, no doubt, singing along.

20:29What a strong young bloke.

20:32Come on, Finlay.

20:33APPLAUSE

20:49Oh, my goodness, he's one of my favourites.

20:53Yeah.

20:54I'm praying now.

20:56I feel the heathen on my tail.

20:59Oh, not the most honest means of travel.

21:03He gets me there nonetheless.

21:06He's perfect.

21:09I feel the heathen on my tail.

21:12Oh, not the most honest means of travel.

21:16He gets me there nonetheless.

21:17He's perfect.

21:17And I'll leave and wash your clothes.

21:21Just give me some candy.

21:24And his tone of voice, everything's gorgeous.

21:29Oh, darling, I'll kiss your eyes

21:33And lay you down on your arm.

21:36Oh, just think of him singing it to his mouth.

21:40Before I go on.

21:43Just knowing that he was not going to see her for much longer.

21:48The lyrics take on such a new movie.

21:52Just give me some candy.

21:56After my heart.

22:00Oh, not that.

22:03It's been difficult adjusting to this new life that we've found ourselves in.

22:08We've all had to grow up very quickly.

22:11It's really important not to let your grief define you.

22:16That was a message from my mum.

22:17No matter how hard life gets, pick yourself back up again and keep going.

22:37You're smashing it.

22:39Just all in his stride.

22:41Things that would crush most of us.

22:43And still carry the song flawlessly.

22:46Makes you a bit speechless, doesn't it?

22:48Makes you a bit speechless, doesn't it?

22:49Just give me some candy.

22:53After my heart.

23:00Yes!

23:13Nailed that.

23:14Absolutely.

23:14He's an absolute legend.

23:19Thank you guys.

23:20Thank you so much.

23:33Look!

23:35What an amazing family.

23:39Cheers.

23:44He's definitely in the running for me for the final.

23:47Oh my gosh!

23:50Oh!

23:51Ben!

23:53Oh, mate!

23:54That was very special.

24:02Oh, she's got the Scottish tartan on!

24:06I can't believe I've been out now with that one!

24:08This is class.

24:09I love this.

24:09I love it.

24:10They bonded.

24:11I'm excited.

24:11I'm nervous.

24:12I'm shutting myself...

24:14I'm so sorry.

24:15I am scared.

24:17Why are you scared today?

24:18Is it the audience?

24:19No.

24:19It's actually more Grace and my mum are here.

24:22Grace is my daughter.

24:23She's amazing.

24:24She's amazing.

24:25She's 15.

24:26So you had her quite young then?

24:2716 when I fell pregnant.

24:2817 when I had her.

24:30Imagine that at 17.

24:31That pressure.

24:33My mum told me to take a pregnancy test.

24:35She knew me so well that she was like,

24:38you're pregnant.

24:39My family are Catholic.

24:40I was just so worried about telling people.

24:42There was a lot of shame around things like that.

24:44But my dad, he just said, there's worse things that can happen than a wee baby.

24:48And I was like, oh my God.

24:49You're right.

24:50Thanks.

24:52School was hard.

24:53I wasn't allowed in the school yearbook because there'll be no mention of Hannah and the

24:57baby in the yearbook.

24:58So I had to leave school, instantly get a job.

25:01I just had to become an adult.

25:03I literally just went into mum mode.

25:05And that was me for my whole life.

25:06I never really done anything else.

25:08And I think it just...

25:10Oh, don't cry.

25:12Sorry.

25:12I'm not going to cry.

25:14I think because it was such a shock to my system.

25:17I did not mean to fall pregnant that young.

25:19But it's been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

25:21And I don't regret a thing.

25:22Oh, man.

25:23I wonder when she'll be on.

25:25So the song is about Grace.

25:27So it's called It Is You.

25:28It's an original song.

25:29Has she wrote it?

25:30Yeah.

25:30Have you ever performed your song at all?

25:33I've done it for my very close family and friends.

25:35It's just a very scary thing to share, such a personal song.

25:38You lift me higher than the sun and the moon.

25:44You make me feel lighter than a balloon.

25:49You are my lemon tea on a cold winter morning.

25:54You are the harness that keeps me from falling.

25:59That is a measured vocal there.

26:02It's just so solid.

26:04It is you that makes me complete.

26:10It is you that knocks me off my feet.

26:15Where she's placing her vibrato as well is so nice.

26:19This is a gorgeous song, you know.

26:20There's a natural talent when it comes to writing.

26:23I'm sat here just listening as if this song's existed for years.

26:26It is you.

26:31When I wrote it, it was during lockdown.

26:33She went to her dad's for a few weeks.

26:35We couldn't mix households.

26:37You make me feel alive.

26:41In that time that she was away, I was completely lost.

26:44Because me and Grace have grew up together.

26:46So I didn't really know who I was out with being a mum.

26:49And I started writing.

26:51Which is bizarre, because I don't know how a song came to my head.

26:55I don't play an instrument.

26:56So it's the weirdest thing.

26:58It is you that makes me complete.

27:00It's about her.

27:01She's kind.

27:03She's so smart.

27:04And there's a line in it.

27:05You are the harness that keeps me from falling.

27:07Because she is.

27:08And she's the reason that I strive to be a better person every single day.

27:11You are the harness that keeps me from falling.

27:16Oh, look at her.

27:17Look at her.

27:19Look at her.

27:19Just everything that she does.

27:22Sorry.

27:23Sorry.

27:23Everything she does.

27:25Like, getting a job at 17.

27:27All of it is just to, like, give her daughter a chance.

27:31I need to go and give her a mum hug.

27:34You're going.

27:35It is you.

27:40It is you.

27:42Simple words, but all of us are feeling.

27:45Paloma's gone and give her a massive hug.

27:48It is you.

27:51There's you.

27:52What are you doing?

27:59Oh, my God.

28:01I can't see what you do.

28:03Oh, my God.

28:04Oh, my God.

28:05Oh, my God.

28:05Come here.

28:06Don't leave me.

28:08You did so well.

28:10It's so hard.

28:12I felt that so much.

28:14I love you so much.

28:15No, but, like, that's the best love song ever.

28:19Like, people talk about love songs, but, like,

28:21the loves of our lives of our kids.

28:24That's so true.

28:25Do you know what?

28:26It's a brilliant song.

28:27It's brilliant songwriting.

28:28Thanks so much.

28:29Just got another style.

28:31There's going to have to be some kind of metric

28:32that you use, like, who gets to do the Hackney Empire

28:35that isn't just that.

28:39I was all afraid of you.

28:40Yeah.

28:45I can't do this show anymore.

28:47It's too much.

28:48It's too emotional.

28:50Guys, have you got a t-shirt?

28:51I'm in bits here.

28:57So far, nearly all of our singers in Scotland's capital

29:00have given Sam and Paloma a headache.

29:03I've just looked through my notes,

29:05and I've put a star next to six of them.

29:08Yeah.

29:08And we can only take one person to the final.

29:11This is going to be impossible, by the way.

29:13But Edinburgh isn't done with us yet.

29:16My name's Mikey.

29:17The song I'm singing today is by a guy called Zach Bryan.

29:19He's a country singer, and it's called Something in the Orange.

29:22It reminds me of the times I was away.

29:23Obviously missing loved ones, like my wife and my kids.

29:26Daddy, are you coming up?

29:27Yeah, he's coming on to see you, look.

29:29Lovely to meet you.

29:30Yeah, how are you?

29:31I'm very nervous.

29:32You're shaking.

29:33Oh.

29:34He's like, what have I done?

29:38So, what brings you to your song?

29:40So, I started singing about six months ago.

29:42Only six months ago?

29:43Yeah, in front of my wife and friends.

29:45So, who was the first person to hear Mikey sing?

29:48There was a guy in the showers when I was in Afghanistan,

29:50and he heard me sing.

29:51And then he said to me, he says,

29:52you're a really good singer.

29:53And I just laughed it off.

29:54Do you miss the army?

29:56Very much so, yeah.

29:56I wish I was still in.

29:57What do you miss?

29:58Just a crack with the lads.

29:59You know, you live together, you work together,

30:01you did everything together.

30:02What made me...

30:04Oh, my gosh, you are a soldier.

30:06You're so amazing.

30:09So strong.

30:11I was the eldest of six boys.

30:13We used to argue over food and outfits and girls.

30:17But where I'm from, it wasn't the best place.

30:19It was quite rough.

30:19So, I thought I'd set an example for my younger brothers.

30:22And join the army and hopefully they'd follow.

30:23So, I left home at 22.

30:25So, I did 13 years.

30:28I was a troop sergeant in the Royal Lancers.

30:32I loved the army.

30:33We got to deploy all over the world

30:35and see things that not everyone else gets to see.

30:37But, obviously, you've got the downside of it

30:39where you're in conflicts and war zones.

30:42I did deploy to Afghanistan.

30:46That was a bit of a cheeky tour, but, yeah.

30:51I'd just come back on leave for a month.

30:54You're surrounded by alpha males in the army.

30:56You know, you don't expect it to happen to you.

30:59But, my mental health just spiralled out of control.

31:02It was in a year, actually, and we got really upset and stuff.

31:06And I says, this isn't right.

31:09Like, something's going wrong.

31:12So, I found the army med centre and he was in the next morning.

31:16So, I was diagnosed with PTSD

31:18and I was medically discharged into 2022.

31:23I found it very hard transitioning onto City Street.

31:26Went through some dark times.

31:27It got to a point in my life where I didn't want to live anymore.

31:31I was surrounded by love and people that cared for me.

31:35I just didn't want to be near any of them.

31:36I was pushing them all away.

31:38Take a breath tight there.

31:39Yeah.

31:41My wife, I don't know anyone else

31:43that would have stuck by anyone that was struggling like I was,

31:46but she did.

31:51Hi, my name's Mikey.

31:53This song, along with my lovely wife and kids, saved my life.

31:58It'll be fine by a dust cloud, I'm telling you, baby.

32:05These things eat at your bones and drive your young mind crazy.

32:10Oh, I do love his voice.

32:12It's smoky.

32:13But when you place your head between my collar and jaw.

32:20I don't know much, but there's no way to dawn.

32:25He has got a persona, because he's put on the American accent.

32:28Yeah, singing that genre, it would be hard to dismantle that from the accent.

32:35Because if I say I miss you, I know that you won't.

32:39Country music is like always got a sense of longing and reflection.

32:44When I see the sun.

32:46It's full of story.

32:48A lot of people that sing country music have either served or are close with people that have served.

32:53And I know that Zac Bryan was in the armed forces.

32:56Something in the orange tells me you're never coming home.

33:02The song says we're not sure if you're coming home.

33:04Which kind of reminds me of being back in Afghanistan.

33:08I weren't sure if I was going to make it home.

33:12I need to hear you saying you ain't no night.

33:17Life now is really good.

33:19I get to come home every night.

33:20I get to wake up next to my wife and see my children every day.

33:23But there are still struggles.

33:25Your voice only trembles when you try to speak.

33:28Singing is very important to me because it helps me massively with my mental health.

33:35Within five minutes I'm back to being happy again.

33:39To you I'm just a man.

33:42To you you're all I am.

33:44Where the hell am I supposed to go?

33:47I'm pausing myself again.

33:50Something in the orange tells me you're never coming home.

33:54This is a gorgeous performance and he's got the experience in his life to carry the message and the emotion

34:01behind it.

34:02Please turn those headlights around.

34:22I think he would be able to carry an audience in a final.

34:25What I'm finding with everyone so far is technique is gorgeous and in some ways better than professionals.

34:34And I think the reason is where these guys are singing from and the intention with which they're singing with

34:40is coming from a totally different place.

34:42And I feel completely like how are we going to whittle it down?

34:46Overwhelmed.

34:47This is going to be incredibly tough.

34:49Do you know what the best thing about it was?

34:51Watching you two watch me.

34:56I'm very short.

34:58You all right, Pat?

34:59I'm fine.

35:00All right, good.

35:01Well, that's still too tall, isn't it?

35:03Do you want me to smell?

35:03Are you all right?

35:04No, no.

35:04Stop.

35:07I love Pat.

35:08I'm Pat.

35:09I volunteer in Gatnaval Hospital in Glasgow and I got along there on a Tuesday morning and we sing together.

35:16Oh, that's so sweet.

35:18One of the patients who was there was a bit special. That was Jimmy. He was a D-Day veteran

35:23and he was a lovely man.

35:24He had his 100th birthday and he requested A Fond Kiss by Robert Burns.

35:29It's a traditional Scottish song.

35:32So I sang it for him and he had a tear in his eye and when I asked him why

35:36he said it was because his mother used to sing it for him.

35:39If you all think about a song that brings a memory to you, you'll know what I'm talking about.

35:43But that's what songs do. So this song is A Fond Kiss and as far as I'm concerned, it's Jimmy's

35:49song.

35:50Oh, I love it!

35:52It's Jimmy's song.

35:55A Fond Kiss and then we sever.

36:08Oh, I love the D-Day.

36:10Yeah, really.

36:10Deep in her drunk tears I'll pledge thee.

36:17Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

36:26Nothing could resist, my Nancy, for...

36:33Her voice is just so pure.

36:35You can't fail to, sort of, imagine yourself as Jimmy.

36:38I feel like I'm being sung to.

36:40Someone that cares for me is singing to me.

36:45Jimmy was a bit special, and that made me really pleased

36:49that I could sing it for him, because although there was a tear,

36:52there was a memory there for his mother.

36:54That's what songs should do.

36:55There should be memories in songs of places and people and occasions.

37:01Mothers sing to their babies, there's lullabies.

37:04Two people who are getting married choose a song that means something to them.

37:07You go to a concert, you sing, you give it lullaby, you shout it out there.

37:11Everybody has a song.

37:13It's your life.

37:14It's your soundtrack.

37:28It's a Burns song, but to me, Jimmy will always be there for me in that song.

37:34It will always be Jimmy's song.

37:38It will always be.

37:45It will always be.

37:49It will always be.

37:50It will always be.

37:51Yeah, that was beautiful.

37:55I found that really moving, actually.

37:57Yeah.

37:58You're amazing.

38:00It's so beautiful.

38:01It's a lovely song.

38:02I'll be with you, but have a good life.

38:04Yeah.

38:04A fond life.

38:05You wish them well.

38:06It doesn't matter.

38:07You can't be with me, but I still wish you well.

38:09Because you love them so much.

38:10Yeah.

38:13And my name is Sahila.

38:14I'm 28 and I'm from Dundee.

38:16I'm actually teaching assistant just now.

38:18Wow, you look incredible.

38:20Thank you so much.

38:22Hi.

38:23Hello.

38:23Have you ever tried a beret?

38:25Where are the berets?

38:26Oh, I've got several.

38:26Many colours.

38:27Really?

38:27I can't pull it off.

38:29Who's supporting you today?

38:31Who's there?

38:31My big brother Marcellus.

38:32I'm very excited to hear what is your song.

38:35Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.

38:36True.

38:37Oh, yeah.

38:42I can connect to Tracy Chapman and what she's wrote about in that song because I've had similar

38:47experiences.

38:48Both my parents went through some difficult times struggling with poverty and me and my

38:53two brothers experienced what the foster care system was like.

38:56Obviously, there's a huge stigma with children that have gone through the foster care system.

39:00People just categorize them as troubled.

39:02It's just an emotional, turbulent time.

39:07When I was 16, I needed to just get as far away as I could and I wanted to just

39:11break free.

39:13I had a friend that lived in New Zealand, so that was a perfect opportunity.

39:17Going to New Zealand and living there was my fast car moment.

39:21That's so young to leave.

39:2416 years old and went to New Zealand.

39:27You've got a flash car.

39:29I want a ticket to anywhere.

39:32People want to make a deal.

39:34Maybe together we can get somewhere.

39:37Any place is better.

39:39Starting from zero, got nothing to lose.

39:41Maybe we'll make something.

39:43Me and myself, I got nothing to prove.

39:47Me and myself, I got nothing to prove.

39:49Me and myself, I got nothing to prove.

39:53She's making it her own.

39:54Yeah.

39:55I remember you were driving, driving in your car.

39:59Speed so first, felt like I was drunk.

40:02City lights lay out before.

40:04And you all felt nice right by my shoulder.

40:06And I had a feeling that I've lost.

40:11I had a feeling I can be someone, be someone, be someone.

40:20What I want to share the message of is it does shine after the rain.

40:24You can take your fast car and have the courage to start a new life for yourself.

40:28I know things will get better.

40:31Proof I'm working now.

40:33Get some order and I won't move out of the shelter.

40:36Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs.

40:39She's got a musical knowledge.

40:41She knows where the path's laid out, but she also knows where she can take these little scenic routes.

40:45Ad-libbing and doing her own thing.

40:47Like she did when she was a kid, going to a whole other country.

40:50And I feel emotional about it because she took herself as a child across the other side.

40:56Yeah.

40:56I'm sorry.

40:58I want to go give her a hug.

41:00Go see her.

41:01See I remember we were driving, driving in your cars.

41:05Peace of us felt like I was walking.

41:08City lights lay out before.

41:10And you all felt nice right by my shoulder.

41:12And I had a feeling that I've lost.

41:17I had a feeling like I can be someone, be someone, be someone.

41:33You're so brave.

41:35I can't believe it.

41:37You've got such a beautiful voice.

41:40It takes so much to be strong and brave and at 16 just go to the other side of the

41:45world.

41:46And you took a song that was by somebody else and it was like it was your song.

41:51I really appreciate that.

41:52It means a lot.

41:53You're really brave.

42:33So I just want to give him praise as well.

42:38Singing one of the best love songs written of all time.

42:42But Hannah writing her own song I thought was amazing as well.

42:45It is you that makes me complete.

42:50When you look at Hannah and another favourite of ours, Sahela.

42:55Sahela's was actually the closest to another original song because it felt like this was

43:01about Sahela and it wasn't someone doing somebody else's song.

43:05So true.

43:06Well, listen, you have got the toughest job.

43:10So, do you know what?

43:10I'm going to leave you to it.

43:11You can deliver out a little bit more.

43:13I don't like you very much, Alison.

43:18She's all relaxed.

43:19She's all relaxed.

43:20Do not turn to us.

43:21No, no, no.

43:22Yay!

43:26Team Edinburgh, I just want to thank you for giving your hearts and souls,

43:30telling your stories and singing for us.

43:33As you know, you wasn't just singing for the Edinburgh crowds.

43:36You were singing for the phenomenal Paloma Faith and Sam Ryder.

43:47Thank you, everybody.

43:49You've all really blown us away and we've had tears.

43:53Me particularly probably needs therapy after this season.

43:57But no, we are going to be putting on a special grand final concert

44:02and we are so happy to say that you're all invited

44:05and we can't wait to see all of you again.

44:09There can only be one singer at this amazing event,

44:12which is a real shame because this was impossible.

44:15Every single one of you blew my mind.

44:16But the singer that we've chosen to come and sing in London

44:20at the grand final is...

44:31Finlay.

44:42It's completely just gobsmacked.

44:47I don't know what the right thing does to say.

44:50I'm just...

44:50Yeah, I'm just delighted.

44:52Absolutely delighted.

44:53Well done.

44:54Oh, thanks. Cheers, mate.

44:55Thank you so much.

44:56The reason we chose Finlay, the voice, phenomenal.

44:59Stopped me in my tracks.

45:00The care and sincerity of just his command of the stage,

45:05the guitar, the instrument in his hands,

45:07the love you can feel from him.

45:09I recognised you singing on that stage was your moment

45:11for you and your sisters.

45:12He's been through hell.

45:14He's here now, stepping up to the plate

45:16that no 22-year-old should have to step up to.

45:19Amazing man.

45:20Roman.

45:21Oh, my gosh.

45:22Thank you so, so much.

45:23He floored us with his story and his performance combined

45:26and those two things felt very connected.

45:29There's no separating him from the song and the story.

45:33I've not been able to stop thinking about my parents and things.

45:36They loved to brag and boast about their kids

45:39and I feel like this is something that, you know,

45:41they'd be marching around the whole town talking about.

45:55I don't know really how to say this other than the fact that I've won.

46:00Yeah.

46:02Yeah.

46:03Yeah.

46:04I know.

46:09This is you.

46:10This is you.

46:10Fine, you've done this and you deserve this.

46:12And honestly, like, mum and dad would be proud of you, mate.

46:17Like, seriously.

46:17Oh, I hope so.

46:23Thank you, Evan Burrock!

46:26You've been amazing!

46:29Yeah!

46:31Yeah!

46:31Next time...

46:32When I was a little girl...

46:35We take the Your Song stage to London.

46:37I feel like I might need to lift you up.

46:40To hear songs that celebrate college...

46:42Show me life stronger than me...

46:46Love.

46:47You didn't break my heart.

46:49Oh, no.

46:50It will rise up.

46:51And hope.

46:52That voice should never be trapped.

46:56But who will be chosen...

46:58For the final concert.

47:00I want that song!

47:01Woo-ro spam!

47:01Okay, yeah, bye bye.

47:02Good stuff.

47:03And like, yeah.

47:08No Yahweh...

47:11I also gotta give a little girl, Johnaut,

47:11If she was like, to囔áo?

47:17We can tell ya, and go.

47:21We'll be on that one.

47:25To be honest, Tyler's true!

47:26It's funny!

47:26That one man...

47:28What is happening?

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